Many fixed-term deals have small print allowing firms to put up their prices, with at least 30 days' notice.
Many fixed-term contracts for mobile phones, broadband and landline services have small print in their terms and conditions allowing prices to be put up, with at least 30 days' notice.
Many fixed line operators are integrating wireless with their traditional phone services, selling the service to consumers with the convenience of having one device and one bill for both mobile and fixed line calls.
Clearly companies like Comcast and GE, are mindful of that reality in an environment where investors look to the equity market for yield due to the paltry rates on many fixed-income instruments like U.S. Treasuries.
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Mr. Wainwright said while many fixed matches were already known from trials in Europe, the Europol investigation that began in July 2011 lifted the lid on the widespread involvement or organized crime in rigging games.
For a country like Portugal, that will turn many US fixed income investors off from Portuguese government bonds.
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Unlike many large fixed-wing drones, which are flown under remote control by ground-based pilots, a modified K-MAX flies autonomously along a programmed course using GPS to navigate via specified way points.
They have, he points out, many advantages over fixed-line operators with stronger brands and a closer relationship with their customers.
The two Japanese carriers argue weakly that many of their fixed costs, such as high landing and fuel charges in Japan, are not of their making.
You know, there are so many people on fixed incomes and working people who are not going to be able to afford the spike in energy costs.
You have fixed many of our problems.
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For two decades the state controlled lending and also fixed as many as 200 separate interest rates.
Compounding the problem is a misallocation of wealth: People have too many sailors on the fixed-income side of the boat.
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Many of these carry fixed returns, typically guaranteed for ten years.
While the illustration may have moved some investors from zero to a token weight in foreign, many investors and advisors fixed on the optimum point at 20 to 30 percent as a maximum foreign weighting.
He said many people on low fixed incomes and facing high food and fuel costs would be very worried about getting a below-inflation increase and "in some cases therefore are going to see quite a significant reduction in their weekly income".
But many other countries kept prices fixed and increased the size of their subsidies.
The company now has more than 67, 000 phones in distribution worldwide, including 12, 800 fixed phones, many of which are typically used on boats and in remote buildings.
They have to sell many cars to cover the fixed expenses but after the break even, each additional car sold is probably half profit to the bottom line.
In 2006, Labour gave patients the right to choose where to be treated for routine surgery, introduced a fixed price for many procedures carried out in hospitals, and allowed those that balanced their books the right to become more independent Foundation Trusts.
It is five o'clock in the morning and in a scene that would not look out of place in a zombie film, bleary-eyed youngsters, with fixed stares and many still clad in their night clothes, stagger into a leisure centre in west London.
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This could include the number of vulnerabilities development groups are introducing into your websites every month, the speed at which issues that do slip through QA are fixed or how many days of the year a particular system is exposed to something serious.
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And because most British mortgages are at variable interest rates, or are fixed for only a few years, sharp cuts in rates in Britain eased the burden on debtors more than rate cuts did in America, where many more mortgages are at fixed rates.
This suggests that the right role for government is not to shower money on a handful of putative winners but to take a portfolio approach: finding companies on the margin of exporting and helping as many as possible overcome the fixed costs of entry.
All sides know that many striking rail workers have had their eyes fixed on what has been called "Black Tuesday", when many of those who have been struggling to get to work over the past week will themselves be going on strike.
Like the Internet, this kind of distribution channel has many nodes of activity and no fixed hub.
Debts (and in many cases interest payments) are fixed in money terms, so the faster nominal incomes grow, the smaller the burden of debt becomes.
However, in many places, retail prices remain fixed by government fiat.
Merely by summoning these bodies into being, he has undermined the supremacy of the Westminster Parliament, which many hold to be the one fixed point in Britain's constitution.
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